Lesley Frank
Biographic Data
| ID | 3743753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesley Frank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Frank |
| SIGNATURE | FRANK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Acadia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4996-1625 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Media-ting Austerity Feeding
This paper makes visible austerity-based infant food exchange as a contemporary food acquisition practice outside of commercial and regulated foodscapes. It presents results from a netnography conducted within two popular online platforms in Canada between April 2017 and February 2018: the Kijiji classified advertising site, and Facebook. Qualitative analysis of over 2000 user generated secondhand exchange ads show practices from selling, trading…
Qualitative Research Studies Online
Solicited journal entries are a qualitative research method with a fairly strong tradition in sociological research and particularly in qualitative health research. However, the practices and strengths associated with solicited journal entries have not been explored as frequently or comprehensively as more conventional qualitative research methods, such as interviews. During the COVID-19 pandemic we carried out two online studies employing solici…
Starving to be a student
Household food insecurity (HFI) exists when access to food is inadequate or insecure due to financial constraints, and is an issue of increasing concern among postsecondary students who face barriers to food access due to precarious finances. The goal of the current study was to explore the experience of HFI among university students in Nova Scotia (NS), including barriers and facilitators, and potential policy solutions to the issue from the per…
The cost and affordability of growing and feeding a baby in Nova Scotia
The Breastfeeding Paradox
This paper explores the framing of public policy related to infant food insecurity in Canada by examining multiple levels and jurisdictions where infant feeding and food security policy merge. It identifies that both policy areas position breastfeeding as the solution to infant food insecurity, primarily isolating policy within health domains. Overall, this paper provides a critique of policy in relation to what we know about the challenges of ma…
Exploring Infant Feeding Pratices In Food Insecure Households
This article presents results from a sociological exploratory case study on the relationship between infant feeding practice and household food insecurity in Canada. Drawing on interviews with 20 mothers living in low-income circumstances in Nova Scotia, this article discusses how the particular foodways of the mother-infant dyad—those that relate to food production through lactation, feeding method, food acquisition, and food consumption—are sha…
Qualitative Research Studies Online
Solicited journal entries are a qualitative research method with a fairly strong tradition in sociological research and particularly in qualitative health research. However, the practices and strengths associated with solicited journal entries have not been explored as frequently or comprehensively as more conventional qualitative research methods, such as interviews. During the COVID-19 pandemic we carried out two online studies employing solici…
Exploring Infant Feeding Pratices In Food Insecure Households
This article presents results from a sociological exploratory case study on the relationship between infant feeding practice and household food insecurity in Canada. Drawing on interviews with 20 mothers living in low-income circumstances in Nova Scotia, this article discusses how the particular foodways of the mother-infant dyad—those that relate to food production through lactation, feeding method, food acquisition, and food consumption—are sha…
The cost and affordability of growing and feeding a baby in Nova Scotia
The Breastfeeding Paradox
This paper explores the framing of public policy related to infant food insecurity in Canada by examining multiple levels and jurisdictions where infant feeding and food security policy merge. It identifies that both policy areas position breastfeeding as the solution to infant food insecurity, primarily isolating policy within health domains. Overall, this paper provides a critique of policy in relation to what we know about the challenges of ma…
Media-ting Austerity Feeding
This paper makes visible austerity-based infant food exchange as a contemporary food acquisition practice outside of commercial and regulated foodscapes. It presents results from a netnography conducted within two popular online platforms in Canada between April 2017 and February 2018: the Kijiji classified advertising site, and Facebook. Qualitative analysis of over 2000 user generated secondhand exchange ads show practices from selling, trading…
The Breastfeeding Paradox
This paper explores the framing of public policy related to infant food insecurity in Canada by examining multiple levels and jurisdictions where infant feeding and food security policy merge. It identifies that both policy areas position breastfeeding as the solution to infant food insecurity, primarily isolating policy within health domains. Overall, this paper provides a critique of policy in relation to what we know about the challenges of ma…
Exploring Infant Feeding Pratices In Food Insecure Households
This article presents results from a sociological exploratory case study on the relationship between infant feeding practice and household food insecurity in Canada. Drawing on interviews with 20 mothers living in low-income circumstances in Nova Scotia, this article discusses how the particular foodways of the mother-infant dyad—those that relate to food production through lactation, feeding method, food acquisition, and food consumption—are sha…
Starving to be a student
Household food insecurity (HFI) exists when access to food is inadequate or insecure due to financial constraints, and is an issue of increasing concern among postsecondary students who face barriers to food access due to precarious finances. The goal of the current study was to explore the experience of HFI among university students in Nova Scotia (NS), including barriers and facilitators, and potential policy solutions to the issue from the per…
The cost and affordability of growing and feeding a baby in Nova Scotia
Qualitative Research Studies Online
Solicited journal entries are a qualitative research method with a fairly strong tradition in sociological research and particularly in qualitative health research. However, the practices and strengths associated with solicited journal entries have not been explored as frequently or comprehensively as more conventional qualitative research methods, such as interviews. During the COVID-19 pandemic we carried out two online studies employing solici…
Media-ting Austerity Feeding
This paper makes visible austerity-based infant food exchange as a contemporary food acquisition practice outside of commercial and regulated foodscapes. It presents results from a netnography conducted within two popular online platforms in Canada between April 2017 and February 2018: the Kijiji classified advertising site, and Facebook. Qualitative analysis of over 2000 user generated secondhand exchange ads show practices from selling, trading…
Economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Food insecurity (4 works) · Food security (4 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Breastfeeding (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Political science (3 works)